2012 Cloud and Virtualization Predictions

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1. How do you characterize your role within your company?

How do you characterize your role within your company? Staff

Manager

Director

Executive

Title (please specify)

2. What is your IT experience level?

What is your IT experience level? 0-3 years

4-7 years

8-10 years

11-15 years

15+ years

N/A

*

3. Do you work in state, local, county, education or federal government for the U.S. military, or as a government contractor?

Do you work in state, local, county, education or federal government for the U.S. military, or as a government contractor? Yes

No

It's complicated (please specify)

4. What IT areas do you manage? (check all that apply)

What IT areas do you manage? (check all that apply) System Administration

Network Management & Monitoring

Storage / SAN Monitoring

Virtualization

Database Management

Helpdesk

Applications

5. What is the size of your IT environment?

What is the size of your IT environment? Small (<200 systems)

Medium (200-500 systems)

Large (500-1500 systems)

Extra Large (>1500 systems)

6. What percentage of your environment is virtualized?

What percentage of your environment is virtualized? 0-10%

11-30%

31-50%

51-70%

71-90%

91-100%

N/A

7. Who do you think will be the most-trusted private cloud vendor?

Who do you think will be the most-trusted private cloud vendor? VMware

Microsoft

Oracle

EMC

Citrix

Other (please specify)

8. What percentage of your key applications will be deployed on a private cloud next year?

What percentage of your key applications will be deployed on a private cloud next year? 0-10%

11-30%

31-50%

51-80%

81-100%

N/A

9. What do you believe will see the biggest adoption in the coming year?

What do you believe will see the biggest adoption in the coming year? Private cloud

Public cloud

Hybrid cloud

10. What hypervisor or virtualization vendors will you use in the next year for private cloud management? (check all that apply)

What hypervisor or virtualization vendors will you use in the next year for private cloud management? (check all that apply) VMware

Citrix

Microsoft

KVM

Openstack

Other (please specify)

11. Do you plan to manage your different hypervisors discretely or in one combined tool?

Do you plan to manage your different hypervisors discretely or in one combined tool? Yes

No

Don’t care

12. What do you think will be the biggest private cloud management challenge?

What do you think will be the biggest private cloud management challenge? Implementing Chargeback

Managing performance contention

Implementing a self service portal

Automating the end to end process

Getting business acceptance

13. Given Microsoft’s recent announcement of Hyper-V’s upcoming support of Live Migration without shared storage, what will be the importance of shared storage moving forward?

Given Microsoft’s recent announcement of Hyper-V’s upcoming support of Live Migration without shared storage, what will be the importance of shared storage moving forward? Shared storage is becoming less important

Shared storage importance is about the same

Shared storage is becoming more important

14. Due to the convergence of shared storage and virtualization, rank each statement by which is predicted to happen :

Already seeing this

Most likely

Likely

Not likely

Storage functionality will be absorbed into the hypervisor

*Due to the convergence of shared storage and virtualization, rank each statement by which is predicted to happen : Storage functionality will be absorbed into the hypervisor Already seeing this

Storage functionality will be absorbed into the hypervisor Most likely

Storage functionality will be absorbed into the hypervisor Likely

Storage functionality will be absorbed into the hypervisor Not likely

Virtualization and Storage teams will merge in most cases

Virtualization and Storage teams will merge in most cases Already seeing this

Virtualization and Storage teams will merge in most cases Most likely

Virtualization and Storage teams will merge in most cases Likely

Virtualization and Storage teams will merge in most cases Not likely

Virtualization and Storage teams will remain separate in most cases

Virtualization and Storage teams will remain separate in most cases Already seeing this

Virtualization and Storage teams will remain separate in most cases Most likely

Virtualization and Storage teams will remain separate in most cases Likely

Virtualization and Storage teams will remain separate in most cases Not likely

Storage will be consumed as a service

Storage will be consumed as a service Already seeing this

Storage will be consumed as a service Most likely

Storage will be consumed as a service Likely

Storage will be consumed as a service Not likely

15. Given IT’s changing role of creating and maintaining infrastructure vs. acting as more of an intermediary, do you plan to invest in the following business skills? (check all that apply)

Given IT’s changing role of creating and maintaining infrastructure vs. acting as more of an intermediary, do you plan to invest in the following business skills? (check all that apply) “Marketing” of IT Services back to the business

“Product Management” for IT services

“Financial” roles for the pricing/chargeback of IT services

“Competitive Analysis” (vs. external service providers)

Other (please specify)

16. How important is a holistic approach to managing physical and virtual networks, applications and storage as opposed to deployment of multiple point solutions?

How important is a holistic approach to managing physical and virtual networks, applications and storage as opposed to deployment of multiple point solutions? Extremely Important

Important

About the same importance as last year

Not Important

17. In your own words, what do you predict for the private cloud?

In your own words, what do you predict for the private cloud?

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